News
22 January 2024
Students from the Arctic Studies Master Program together with Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik have developed a project about historical sources concerning Indigenous and local food traditions experienced and told by European travelers, scholars, or missionaries from the 17th -19th centuries.
15 January 2024
The exhibition “Arctic Twilight” showing pastels by Jean Malaurie and organized by UNESCO in cooperation with MIARC and Galerie Orenda (Paris) is held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, January 18 to 25, 2024.
11 January 2024
New article on construction of the Far North used in printed sources of the Moravian Brethren in the 18th c. by Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik has been published in Deshima, journal dedicated to global history, culture, arts and societies of the Nordic countries (University of Strasbourg press, PUS).
20 December 2023
On 14th December 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia organized a seminar on “The Role of Polar Research in Strengthening Geopolitical Security” in conjunction with the Polar Research Centre of the Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Latvia. The event gathered scientists, civil servants and businessmen.
14 December 2023
Jean Malaurie will celebrate his 101th birthday next week on 22th December. Ahead of the occasion, Joelle Rostkowski and Jan Borm will share their thoughts on Jean Malaurie’s life and career.
5 December 2023
Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik has published a paper on Moravian knowledge about humans and nature in Greenland, Lapland, and Iceland and its reception among German, French and Polish scholars.
5 December 2023
MIARC researcher Eda Ayaydin contributed to this volume with a briefing note on "Discussing Arctic Geopolitics in Bosphorus".
29 November 2023
UArctic Chairs Hanne H. Christiansen, Arja Rautio and Jan Borm met at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in France, together with UArctic Chair Roland Kallenborn, who joined online, during a workshop entitled “One Health in the Arctic” to explore future transdisciplinary collaborative projects.
24 November 2023
MIARC is delighted to announce the release of Eda Ayaydin’s book Uluslararasi Iliskilerde Arktik (The Arctic in International Relations). Eda Ayaydin (MIARC) is a fellow member of the International Arctic Science Committee for 2023-2026.
14 November 2023
Two researchers from UVSQ’s Atmosphere Physics/Space Observation laboratory LATMOS, accompanied by Professor Jan Borm, director of MIARC, visited Greenland in the aim of strengthening and establishing new collaborations with institutional and private organisations.
7 November 2023
An international colloquium on "De nouveaux corpus littéraires dans le Nord et dans l’Arctique" ("New Bodies of Literature in the North and the Arctic") will take place on 14-15 March 2024 at Cégep de Sept-Iles (Québec). Deadline for submission of papers is 11 December 2023.
19 October 2023
MIARC continues its cooperation with the research group Collecting Norden during the workshop on Museum Objects: Collecting, Constructing, and Comprehending “Norden”.
